Cricket Australia on Thursday said its all-formats visit through Sri Lanka is as yet going on regardless of the ongoing civil uprisings in the south Asian island country. Australia’s administration has encouraged nationals to rethink their need to venture out to Sri Lanka after agitation followed the current week’s renunciation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Australia’s cricketers are due to visit Sri Lanka in June and July to play three Twenty20 internationals, five one-day games, and two Test matches. And for Australia, A visit through Sri Lanka is arranged simultaneously.
A Cricket Australia representative said the donning body, the national government, and Sri Lankan cricket authorities were “keeping a nearby eye” on improvements in the country.
Cricket Australia said the players and care staff had been informed and, with three weeks until the crew’s takeoff date, “there are no progressions to the timetable.” On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s president guaranteed to name another head of the state, engage the Parliament and cancel the almighty chief official framework as changes pointed toward settling a nation inundated in a political and monetary emergency.
In a broadcast address, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he denounced assaults on peaceful protesters by hordes who came to help his sibling and previous Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who surrendered Monday.
After the country’s terrible economic crisis erupted in violence this week, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) amended its travel advice for Sri Lanka. The generally peaceful protests that had taken place over the previous month erupted into deadly skirmishes last week, prompting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to quit. Security officers have been ordered to kill looters on sight, and a curfew has been imposed.
When security was a worry, the men’s team visited Bangladesh twice (in 2017 and 2021). The single incident on either of those visits occurred in Chittagong during the second Test in 2017, when local children hurled a rock at the Australian team bus, although no one was wounded.
Stuart Bailey, CA’s chief of security, visited Sri Lanka last month and determined that it was safe to travel there.
Since 2016, when both Australia’s men’s and women’s teams played matches on the island, Australia has not toured Sri Lanka. Australia for the men On the trip next month, a squad will play four games.
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